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1.1A secession of a number of people from an organization, resulting in the establishment of a new organization.

as modifier‘a breakaway group’

‘But in the mud and snow of the breakaway republic's southern mountains the fighting is as bitter as ever.’

‘A new league could have - as there was before the breakaway from the Scottish Football League - an even split of broadcasting revenue.’

‘Well, it took ten years for me to realize this: you can call it a reform movement but public journalism was equally a breakaway church.’

‘The public bar bores have finally declared a socialist breakaway republic from the tyranny of the lounge lizards.’

‘The two breakaway parties made their separate ways northward.’

‘The statement was issued in response to a Channel Four documentary, which claimed a minister had contacted the breakaway republican group.’

‘He said that players could well band together and try to buy back the world at the company's bankruptcy hearing - and then run it themselves as a breakaway republic.’

‘This led to an increased number of participation of players from the Soviet breakaway republics in Europe and chess was never the same.’

‘Was he a breakaway from a club barbeque that wasn't going to plan?’

‘Of course, there were objections to the amateur rule, and this caused a rift early in the sport's history, and a new breakaway sport was created in 1895, called Rugby League.’

‘A breakaway train drivers union in the Republic of Ireland resumed unofficial strike action after the state rail company refused to negotiate with them.’

‘It features caricatures of the men who launched the breakaway league in 1998.’

‘It urged the EU to recognize the breakaway republics.’

‘The breakaway paramilitary organisation has been in decline for several months because of a shortage of expertise and resources.’

‘Not only is the BAJ a competing union, it is also a breakaway from the NUJ, having been formed in the early 1990s.’

‘The teenage years began to take on a self-defining identity like a breakaway state within society, a colony declaring its independence from the past, a banana republic that would work out its own constitution.’

‘It met with a fierce response from software libre developers, with talk of creating a breakaway organization that could set royalty-free standards.’

‘The transient parties are usually formed from a breakaway from the two main parties and are a response to the policies that they might be supporting at a national level.’

‘The investigation follows threats from the breakaway republican group against suspected drug dealers made in a number of phone calls to national newspapers.’

‘Erin's Own was a breakaway from the existing hurling club in the town, which then disbanded.’